THE GENESIS OF THE NOVEL. Madame de Tencin. Raoul de Beaucrispin. Book News Monthly for January. CHOPIN IN FICTION. (His relations with George Sand.) Lorna Gill. Etude for January. BRAND WHITLOCK ON THE AMERICAN QUALITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. Current Opinion for Jan uary. Willard SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: A CRITICISM. Huntington Wright. Forum for January. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. William Stanley Braithwaite. Forum for January. WHERE GREAT VISION Is (Spoon River Anthology). Shaemas O'Sheel. Forum for January. SHAKSPERE :- THE MAN OF WISDOM : OUR NATIONAL CELEBRATION IN HIS HONOR. Illustrated. Mary Fanton Roberts. Craftsman for January. son. 66 William Dean Howells's new novel, The Leatherwood God," will be published serially in the Century. Laura A. Richards is writing a novel, with the title "Pippin, in which she sets forth her theories regarding prison reform. Richard Washburn Child has been sued for divorce. Will Irwin and Inez Haynes Gillmore are to be married. Both have been divorced. "A Life of William Shakspere," by Sir Sidney Lee (The Macmillan Co.), is a revision and amplification of Sidney Lee's book originally published in 1898. "Delane of the Times, by Sir Edward Cook, British Censor-in-Chief, describing the career of John T. Delane, for so long the editor of the London Times, will be the first volume of Henry Holt & Co.'s series, Makers of the Nineteenth Century. "The Life and Times of Tennyson," by Thomas R. Lounsbury R. Lounsbury (Yale University Press), is a picture of the literary and critical background of Tennyson's work from 1830 to 1850. Theodore Watts-Dunton's article on "Poetry" in the Encyclopædia Britannica will be brought out in book form this month by E. P. Dutton & Co. The article has long been known as a masterpiece, but the author objected to its separate publication, and it was only shortly before his death that he gave permission for it to be put into book form. Alfred A. Knopf has just brought out a new edition of De Vogue's "The Russian Novel." The book deals especially with Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenieff, Dostoievsky, and Tolstoy. "W. B. Yeats: A Critical Study," by Forrest Reid, is published by Dodd, Mead, & Co. "John Bannister Tabb, the Priest-Poet," by M. S. Pine, is published by the Georgetown Visitation Convent, Washington. "The Rise of English Literary Prose," by George Philip Krapp (Oxford University Press), covers what is called by the author, who is Professor of English in Columbia University, the period of discovery in the history of English prose. "Alcott Memoirs," by Dr. Frederick L. H. Willis (Richard Badger), is a posthumous publication from the papers and journals of Dr. Willis, who lived for ten years with the Alcott family. He was the "Laurie" of "Little Women." The Russian Review, a new monthly periodical in English, devoted to articles upon Russian life, literature, and art, is published in New York. The editor is Leo Paviovsky. Professor R. M. Johnston of Harvard University, a specialist in military history and strategy, and Captain A. L. Conger of the United States army service schools are editors of a new quarterly, the Military Historian and Economist, devoted to articles on tactics, strategy, and the conduct of war, which is printed by the Harvard University Press. Contemporary Verse, the new magazine of poetry, is published at 203 Chestnut avenue, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. The American edition of the Strand Magazine will be discontinued with the February number, because, on account of the war, the plates of the English edition can no longer be sent over. Modern Language Notes has come down to the size of Harper's, and Dr. C. Carroll Marden, the editor, has resigned to devote himself to his special field of Spanish studies. James Wilson Bright is the new editor. The London Athenæum is now published monthly, at the price of a shilling. The Woman's Home Companion (New York) has added a Picture Section, beginning with the February issue. The department will contain news features, art features, fashions, and other matters of special or timely interest, and the pictures will be in color or in the new alco-gravure process. The Youth's Companion, which is now published in its new building on Commonwealth avenue, Boston, is going to add a pictorial supplement. The Pedagogical Publishing Company (New York ), which has published the School Journal and the Teachers' Magazine, has filed schedules in bankruptcy showing liabilities of $12,410 and assets $206. Arthur P. Hankins writes to the New York Tribune that answering an advertisement for manuscripts for the Blue Moon he sent a story, and received in reply a letter from Alexander Jessup saying that he as editor of the Blue Moon would be glad to "consider " the manuscript for publication in the magazine, if the author would send promptly ten dollars to pay Mr. Jessup for putting the story into proper literary form, payment for the story, which "it is quite probable we can schedule," to be made, in case of acceptance, on publication. A sentence in the letter indicates that the magazine has not been started yet. The author is not given the option of having the ten dollars deducted from the amount paid for the story. Mr. Hankins says: "All through the letter there are half promises, which Mr. Jessup could easily back out of. He would have merely to say, after pocketing my ten dollars, that, after consideration, my story had been found unavailable. " Mr. Jessup's advertisements signed Editor, 149 West 86th street, New York City." 666 are Dr. Daniel Giraud Elliot died in New York December 22, aged eighty years. Dr. William Howard Doane died at South Orange, N. J., December 23, aged eighty-three. Charles Dwyer, editor of the Woman's World, died in Chicago January 10, aged fifty-nine. Jeanette L. Gilder died in New York January 17, aged sixty-six. |